Talking about the first time he had work done to his face, he confessed: “'I've got four children, and they'd say: 'Dad, why have you got so many wrinkles on your face when Clementine's daddy has no wrinkles?'

“The lines were pretty horrific, like Scarface, and I was never embarrassed by it but my children helped me become more paranoid about it.

"There's only so much s*** you want to take. I woke up in the morning and Matilda [daughter] was trying to squeeze pound coins in there.”

After moving to LA, one brutally honest makeup artist even suggested his face was the result of a car crash.

Gordon added: "They said: 'Oh my god, when did you go through the windscreen?' You put up with it, but then you get f***ing sick of it. I listened to what Simon Cowell said, and he said, 'Get it done, it'll make you look more…”

HALF A CENTURY SINCE

Jules Rimet still gleaming

Speaking of the procedure, Gordon continued: 'It took four minutes each side, lasered not Botoxed. No one noticed until I mentioned it. When you don't say anything you're classified as a liar, so you can't win. It's got me more s*** in the past six months…

“Am I going to have any more work done? Of course I'm not going to have any more f***ing work done. The amazing guy who did it said to me, "Let's get one thing right. I am not, under any circumstances, ever going to touch that forehead."